Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner Team Lead

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust; Ely; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust seeks an experienced emotional health and wellbeing practitioner team lead to provide operational and clinical leadership for a multi-disciplinary EHWP team. You will help shape service development, drive transformation projects and support the establishment of MHSTs across Cambridgeshire.

The role focuses on improving access to mental health support for children and young people, aligning with iThrive models and KPI delivery, with a time-limited

Qualifications

• Experienced professional passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people.
• Proven leadership across clinical and operational settings with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to drive service development, transformation projects and KPI delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational management and clinical leadership to the EHWP team.
• Support the Service Manager in delivering strategic priorities and transformation projects.
• Coordinate development and implementation of emerging service models, including MHSTs.
• Balance service delivery with development and expansion of new teams in Cambridgeshire.

Skills

Operational leadership

Clinical leadership

Team leadership

Multi-disciplinary collaboration

Project management

Service development

Change management

Job description

Are you an experienced professional passionate about making a real difference to children and young people?

Join our Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner team as a Team Lead and play a key role in shaping and delivering high-quality early intervention services.

Working alongside the Service Manager, you will provide operational leadership, support service development and transformation projects, and help drive positive outcomes for children, young people and their families. This is an exciting opportunity to influence service delivery, lead a skilled multi-disciplinary team, and contribute to a nationally recognised early intervention programme.

We are looking for a motivated and innovative professional who thrives in a collaborative environment where evidence-based practice, creativity and new ways of working are actively encouraged.

This role is ideal for someone seeking to broaden their leadership experience while helping to achieve KPI/targets and expand access to mental health support for young people when they need it most.

Should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 5 November 2026

The post holder will provide operational management and clinical leadership to the team whilst supporting the Service Manager in the delivery of strategic priorities, service developments and transformation projects across the service.

A key responsibility of the role will be to coordinate and oversee the development and implementation of the emerging service models, including the establishment of future Mental Health Support Teams (MHST), predominately within the Cambridgeshire area.

Alongside their Team Manager responsibilities, the post holder will maintain oversight of the MHST project programme, balancing operational service delivery with the successful development and implementation of new teams.

This role is time limited due to the changing service delivery model across the service and this team are expected to remain in place until January/February 2029-2030.

The role will support the emotional wellbeing of children and young people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner Team (EHWP) support key professionals, including Education, Social Care and Health. The EHWP is part of the ‘Getting Advice’ quadrants of the iThrive model implemented across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The iThrive model provides an integrated approach to the delivery of person-centred and needs-led services for children, young people and families.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kerry Seymour Job title: Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07912473664